14 DAY TRIAL // Two Muslim dating sites, Shadi.com and MuslimMatch.com, had their data dumped online in the past two weeks after attackers broke into their systems.
The latest incident took place on July 10, 2016, when, according to LeakedSource, a hacker breached Shadi.com, an online dating portal for Muslims.
LeakedSource claims to have obtained a copy of the stolen data and says that the hacker managed to take 2,035,020 user records that included details such as the user's email address and cleartext account password.
Two weeks before this incident, Troy Hunt, maintainer of the Have I Been Pwned? Service, told Motherboard that he received data stolen from the MuslimMatch.com service, another online dating portal for Muslims.
He said that the data contained over 150,000 user account records and over 790,000 private messages exchanged between users. The passwords included in this data dump were not in cleartext format, but MuslimMatch used MD5 to hash their content, an algorithm that can easily be broken.
None of the data from these two sites appears to be traded on the Dark Web at the moment of writing the article. Affected users can use the LeakedSource and Have I Been Pwned? services to see if their account details are included in the leaks.
#EscortsOffline campaign continues
Last month, we wrote about ElSurveillance, a Moroccan hacker who was engaged in a hacktivism campaign to bring down escort websites.
In a private conversation with Softpedia, ElSurveillance shared links to data dumps from services he recently attacked, breached, and whose data he leaked.
This includes AfrikaDating.com, from where he leaked 12,738 user records that contained plaintext passwords, and AdultSingleSites.com.au, from where he stole and leaked 67,118 user records.
The hacker also breached the PinkDate.co.uk escort website, which has been under maintenance for almost a week. This data ElSurveillance shared the following screenshots of PinkDate's backend panel with Softpedia.
